Remixes can be a dime a dozen (or a penny a laptop), but after listening to YACHT's tweaks of Stereolab and Ratatat tunes for a couple days, we figured they were more than worth posting. Jona…   Read Story »

Echoing Slate's out-of-date Portland exposé from this past fall, MTV's followed the momentum of their Brooklyn 2008 piece with a feature on PDX. What we learn: There are a lot of bands who live…   Read Story »

YACHT is the brainchild of ex-Blow member and current-MacBook Air "Airmail" co-inventor Jona Bechtolt.   Read Story »

In addition to shooting a ton of performances in Austin last week, we subjected many of our favorite acts to Texas music trivia. You saw part one. In this follow-up, we test the smarts of Islands, My…   Read Story »

The people of Austin are nice enough to welcome thousands (and thousands) of vagabond music fans into their city for a few days each year, so we decided to pay their stomping ground homage with a…   Read Story »

Giving us something better than a penny to pick up, the always kind Portland beat-tweaker Jona Bechtolt's posted a bunch of free YACHT and Blow instrumentals over at his site with the following…   Read Story »

AiH and YACHT are known to dip into each other's troughs: they're tourmates; YACHT was one of the many (many, many) tapped to rework Architecture's killer "Heart It Races"; and we're pretty sure they…   Read Story »

With no consensus pick emerging from our call for your top summer jamz, YACHT steps up to the plate with an unsubtly-titled track aiming for your poolside playlists. Says Jona:I heard someone saying…   Read Story »

Stereogum Puppet Show DJ Jona Bechtolt (a.k.a. YACHT, one-half of the Blow) entrusted the directorial direction of his first clip from I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real. to Matt McCormick, he of…   Read Story »

A couple of our favorite artists are rolling out high-concept vids for their blog-sweeping tracks and were good enough to pass along some still shots from the "sets," as it were. Doubt you'll argue…   Read Story »